Sacramento: Emigre, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Elephant folio sized staplebound magazine. 40 pp. Illustrated profusely in black and white. The 22nd issue of this magazine devoted to the graphic arts. Cover story on Nick Bell and the London College of Printing. Light expected cover wear. A very good example. More about Emigre No. 22
Boston: MIT Press, 1985. Later printing. Paperback. Stated fourth printing. Includes a 32 pp illustrated booklet in clear plastic pocket along with three laminated plastic illustrated "wheels" or tools used for design purposes. Thick plastic folder is lightly worn. Contents all in fine condition. Classic work in the field of... More about Humanscale 1/2/3; A Portfolio of Information: Sizes of People, Seating Considerations and...
New York: Rizzoli, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Oversized quarto in dustwrapper. 254 pp. Detailed text on the life and work of this talented interior designer by Duane Hampton followed by gorgeous color photographs of his work. A near fine hardbound book in dustwrapper. Quite large and heavy volume. More about Mark Hampton An American Decorator
New York: Rizzoli, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. Lavish monograph on the great American interior decorator, Billy Baldwin. Text by Adam Lewis with a foreword by Albert Hadlewy. 255 pp. Illustrated in color. Perhaps the best book on Baldwin. Book has some shelfwear to the bottom edges... More about Billy Baldwin The Great American Decorator
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Oversized clothbound book in dustwrapper. A 232 pp illustrated memoir of the "dean of decorators". Near fine condition in very good unclipped dustwrapper. More about Billy Baldwin Remembers
New York: Abbeville Press, 1994. Second printing. Hardcover. Wide hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 256 pp. With special photography by Fritz von der Schulenberg. Includes 150 full-color photographs. Interior design influences from the Napoleanic Era of neo-classicism that spread through Europe in the 18th century and beyond. SIGNED by the author... More about Empire (Signed
Fairport, NY: Donald P. Naetzker, 1986. First edition. Paperback. Tall trade paperbound volume. 113 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Ingenuity applied to old antiques and other objects. A lovely near fine copy. More about Waste Not, Want Not; The Art of the Make-Do
New York: Bantam Books, 1991. First edition. Cloth. Wide clothbound quarto in dustwrapper.150 pp. A sumptuous and extravagent book with color photographs of the beds of the rich and powerful. A fine copy in dustwrapper. INSCRIBED by Ms. Von Furstenberg on the half-title page. A large and heavy volume. More about Beds (Inscribed
New York: Hawthorn Books, 1972. Second printing. Cloth. Tall clothbound 8vo. 346 pp. Drawings by Katherine Hickish. The first definitive account based on settler's journals and travelers' diaries. A very good clothbound book. Lacking the dustwrapper, but SIGNED by the author. Second printing. More about Colonial Kitchens, Their Furnishings, and Their Gardens (Signed
Milano: il Risorgimento, 1933. First edition. Paperback. Tall softbound quarto. Annual of graphic and printing arts. Text in Italian. A very good copy in bound illustrated wrappers. More about il Risorgimento Grafico numero undici anno trentesimo 30 Novembre 1933 dodicesimo Era fascista
Italy: Associazione Nazionale Italiana, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fabulous book displaying dozens of examples of fine press printing from Italy. Examples using blind embossing, offset lithography, web-offset, screen printing, sheet-fed gravure, flexography, and die-cutting. Printed on various color paper. Fine condition. Laminated boards with linen spine and metal corner tips... More about Printed In Italy
Japan: Unknown, No Date. First edition. Paperback. Small quarto in cardboard sleeve. Text in English and Japanese. Includes seven colour photographs and 183 black and white illustrations. A fine copy in thick bound wrappers in near fine cardboard slipcase. The focus of the book is a Japanese temple. n.d. More about Eiheiji
Japan: Magazine House Mook, 2008. First edition. Paperback. Paperbound folio. Glossy Japanese magazine featuring articles on everything from food, to fashion to travel to entertainment subjects. Editor-in-Chief is Takefumi Ishiwatari. Photographs by Kishin Shinoyama. Fine condition in tall illustrated bound wrappers. Text primarily in Japanese with some English. More about TRIP Brutus 2008 July Issue
Japan: Japan Wool Show Commitee, No Date. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. Thick sewn wrappers. Intoduction in English by Shukichi Kimura. Unpaginated volume of wool samples from Japan. Some light cover wear, but overall a well-preserved very good copy. Quite scarce with only two examples noted in O.C.L.C. More about Wool of Japan
Vercelli: White Star S. p. a., 2006. First American edition. Hardcover. Hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 256 pp. First American edition distributed by Rizzoli. A monograph on custom folding knives. Text by Dr. David Darom, Ron Appleton, Steve Lindsay and others. With gorgeous color photographs of dozens of knife specimens by... More about Art and Design in Modern Custom Folding Knives
Paris: Les Arts Decoratifs, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 238 pp. Beautiful fine monograph on this avant-garde dress designer. Text in French. More about Histoires de Mode
Middletown: Cedar Hill Cemetary Foundation, 2007. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. A marvelous monograph on Weidenmann with text by Rudy J. Favretti. 191 pp. Illustrated in both color and black and white. A lovely near fine copy. More about Jacob Weidenmann Pioneer Landscape Architect
Milan: Antonio Vallardi Editore, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. First Italian edition. Quarto. 141 pp. Text in Italian. Profusely illustrated. Very good in unclipped dustwrapper. More about Ambienti del Cinquecento
New York: Weatherhill, 1975. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. Stated first edition. 259 pp. Illustrated in color. A candid appraisal of the state of netsuke collecting and the market. A handsome copy in decorated brown cloth binding in near fine unclipped dustwrapper. Quite handsome. More about Netsuke Familiar & Unfamiliar; New Principles for Collecting
Northford, CT: Sol's Path, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth spine over boards. 52 pp. With numerous black and white photographs of the interior and exterior of a New England house that has sheltered eight generations. Faint sunning to board edges. A handsome very good copy. Minor corner wear. More about A Silent Witness In Four Centuries
New York: G. W. Bromley & Company, 1934. First edition. Cloth. Oblong clothbound elephant folio size volume. With 188 detailed block - by -block building maps of the City of Manhattan. Includes Block and Street Indexes. Enormously detailed and informative with minute building chnages made by hand from previous editions... More about Manhattan Land Book; Desk and Library Edition
New York: New York Historical Society, 1926. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 32 pp. As the title describes, this booklet includes proceedings and addresses in recognition of Stokes' great work on The Iconography of Manhattan Island. The event was sponsored in connection with the One Hundred And Twenty-First Anniversary Of The... More about Proceedings and Addresses - Reception Tendered To Mr. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes by The New York...
New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Foreword by Ralph Lauren. 223 pp. Near fine in cloth binding in near fine dustwrapper. Profusely illustrated. INSCRIBED by NIles and dated in year of publication. More about White By Design (Inscribed
New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1967. First edition. Cloth. Small clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. Housed in a hard slipcase. 192 pp. Includes numerous mostly black and white photographs. An excellent refernce work on glass paperweights and their makers. Ting prior owner initials to front endpaper. Slightly musty. A solid... More about American Glass Paperweights and Their Makers
New York: Peter Blum Edition, 1995. Second edition. Cloth. Stated second edition of this oversized volume of photographs by Ruff with texts by Steven Holl, Hans Kollhoff, Rem Koolhaas, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Theodora Vischer. Introduction by Terence Riley. Mostly black and white photos with a few tipped on... More about Architectures of Herzog & de Meuron
